Table 6.

The trends in the prevalence of having multiple sexual partners among young adolescents aged 12 years to 15 years between 2003 and 2017 or the earliest and latest surveys by World Health Organization region, sex, and age.

Region	Total sample, % (95% CI)	P value	Boys, % (95% CI)	P value	Girls, % (95% CI)	P value	12-13 years old, % (95% CI)	P value	14-15 years old, % (95% CI)	P value
Total	2.6 (0.8 to 4.4)	<.001	0.4 (–1.8 to 2.6)	.56	5.8 (2.9 to 8.7)	.047	2.5 (–1.9 to 6.9)	.81	2.7 (0.7 to 4.7)	<.001
Africa	–0.2 (–3.9 to 3.5)	.95	–0.6 (–5.3 to 4.1)	.89	–0.5 (–6.2 to 5.2)	.93	27.5 (20.7 to 34.3)	<.001	–9.6 (–13.8 to –5.4)	.002
Americas	1.6 (–0.9 to 4.1)	.59	–0.5 (–3.5 to 2.5)	.06	5.9 (1.8 to 10.0)	<.001	1.0 (–5.1 to 7.1)	.26	2.0 (–0.7 to 4.7)	.07
Southeast Asia	7.4 (–3.9 to 18.7)	.25	4.4 (–10.1 to 18.9)	.42	8.2 (–8.1 to 24.5)	.38	–22.9 (–45.8 to 0.1)	.63	14.9 (2.2 to 27.6)	.046
Western Pacific	4.7 (–3.8 to 13.2)	.58	3.7 (–6.6 to 14.0)	.86	6.3 (–8.5 to 21.1)	.09	–8.9 (–37.0 to 19.2)	.15	4.9 (–4.1 to 13.9)	.80